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img height="1" width="1" style="display:none" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=1703002966605591amp;ev=PageViewamp;noscript=1" Free Video Lessons Student Logins Home About Meet Karen Programs Events Shop Podcast Blog Contact Us Seriously light-hearted musings about horseslife. Healthy, Happy Dressage (43) Life, EmpowermentHorses (33) Foundation Of Partnership (30) Connection With The Reins (8) The Horse Business (3) Search Habits For Excellent Horsemanship Part 1 of 3 It takes years to develop the skills and abilities of an experienced master horseman. The good new is there are specific habits that you can implement starting right now, no matter what level you are.Read More A Holistic View For Keeping Your Horse's Back Healthy The health of your horse’s back is vital to his performance. Achieving healthy back movement requires a holistic solution that takes into account every aspect of your horse’s experience.Read More Most Recent Dissolving Brace Read MoreSmokeMirrorsHorse Welfare Read MoreI'm A Weirdo. Read MoreMost Popular Foamy Mouth - Good or Bad? Read MoreA Technique To Use When You Feel Fear With Your ... Read MoreAbout Nosebands... Read MoreStop Trying To Get Your Horse On The (Bleeping) ... Read MoreHorse Stressed In New Places? Read MoreDon't Do Natural Horsemanship Read MoreDissolving Brace "Horses are not merely lumps of clay where strongly squeezing and pressing on them will make them soft" Many people ... Read MoreSmokeMirrorsHorse Welfare When it comes to horse welfare we all need to play a part, but even though it 'will take a village', personal ... Read MoreI'm A Weirdo. I’m a weirdo. I’m OK with that. I am sure there are ‘right ways’ of doing things. I’m sure there are efficient ways of ... Read MoreHorse School Has Different Classes Training horses, like most things, does not happen in a straight line. Even if you have one clearly defined goal (to do ... Read MoreStop Breaking Horses Prefer to listen? I covered this in my podcast. Horse Training In Harmony, episode 156 Words matter. Often we use words ... Read MoreNothing Is Something At a clinic a few years ago, at the last moment, I threw away my plan for the first session and did something ... Read MoreBe Your Horse's Superhero. Why Partnership Is Not Enough Starting in the late 1990s, I changed from control-based training to communication-based ... Read MoreIs Your Horse A Happy Athlete? I've coached students from multiple disciplines and levels on a variety of breeds of horses, coming from a range of ... Read MoreFoamy Mouth - Good or Bad? I often get asked about what it means when a horse has foam in their mouth and whether it is good or bad. My answer is: ... Read MorePartnershipLeadership Prefer to listen? Click HERE to go to a podcast on this subject. Have you been told by an instructor that you need to ... Read MoreHelping A Horse With Shivers I was given a very lovely young warmblood who I was told (after they gave him to me) was diagnosed with shivers. For ... Read MoreHow To Motivate Your Horse Prefer to listen? I did a podcast that includes this subject. You can listen HERE Can you motivate your horse to offer ... Read MoreHappy Horse Interview Series How do you know if your horse is happy? There are 7 interviews in this series (so far)! You can find them all by going ... Read MoreHow Do You Know Your Horse Is Happy? Settle in for my thoughts on how to know your horse is happy and how to increase his levels of happiness! (45 min ... Read MoreThe Decision This blog is about how to make The Decision... The decision about how to know if it's time to euthanize your beloved ... Read MoreLove It Or Change It. (Prefer to listen? Check out my podcast on this subject) What if… In any moment of tension, there was one question you ... Read MoreWhy Are You Doing Those Dressage Exercises? The key to getting the benefit out of a specific dressage exercise or movement is to know WHY you are doing it. If you ... Read More3 Steps For Improving Anything There are only three steps to get from where you are to where you want to be: Be aware. Do what you can. Play with what ... Read MoreDon't Do Natural Horsemanship When someone says they do dressage, you can picture them doing specific movements like half pass, pirouettes, and ... Read MoreFocus vs Intention In a previous blog I wrote about how intention is the main aid we use with horses so they know the difference between ... Read MoreHow To Choose Your Teacher. Prefer to listen? Go HERE to listen to this topic on Karen's Podcast. Finding the right teacher for each stage of your ... Read MoreAbout Nosebands... There's a lot of discussion in dressage circles about how tight or loose a noseband should be in order to create the ... Read More3 Guidelines For Improving How Your Horse Moves. Prefer to listen? Check out Karen's podcast on this subject. When students want to improve their horse's biomechanics ... Read MoreStop Trying To Get Your Horse On The (Bleeping) ... Prefer to listen? Check out Karen's Podcast on this subject. The phrase "get your horse on the bit" has caused much ... Read MoreHorse Stressed In New Places? In the QA calls we do for our online programs, we often get questions about how to handle things when you take ... Read MoreA Technique To Use When You Feel Fear With Your ... 'Maybe Today' is a technique that will help you when there is something that you want to do with your horse, that you ... Read MoreRead This Before Buying Your Next Horse (Read this even if you are not thinking of buying a new horse) Here's a sentence I hear way too often: "If my horse was ... Read More3 Reasons To Give Your Horse A Break It's important to give your horse breaks. A break can mean a day off, or weeks off. In this article, I will talk about ... Read MoreHow To Bend Your Horse Correctly "Is this the right bend?" is one of the most common question I get asked during clinics. When riders ask this, they are ... Read MoreMy Most Embarrassing Mistake With Horses. (5 minute read, plus a video) James Joyce said: "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." That's probably the last thing ... Read MoreYes, And... Note to readers: If you immediately look for how this article is wrong, then you are proving me right. :-) I have a ... Read MoreHow To Train Low Energy Horses (5 minute read. Includes videos) My first thought for training low energy horses is to not call them lazy. Lazy implies ... Read MoreMusings On Getting Help (This was written for the new year of 2019 and it applies to every moment!) New Year: Celebrating another trip around ... Read MoreAssess Your Horse A quick video message from Karen about the exercise in this blog. The following is an excerpt from my book: Dressage ... Read MoreAn Assumption Of Obligingness Prefer to listen? Check out Karen's podcast on this subject. Many riders aren't enjoying the process of training or ... Read MoreMy Most Viral Video - The Backstory Out of all the videos I have made, there is one video that has gotten more attention than all the others. You can see ... Read MoreRiding Dressage Tests Can Be Fun Riders can often fall into one of two categories: Those who want to compete and those who don't. A more extreme version ... Read MoreContemplation Is A Drag (and that's a good thing) I spend my life creating intangible and fleeting moments: An amazing feeling on a horse, a breakthrough of ... Read More5 Keys for Enjoying Learning Dressage I’ve seen so many people spend SO much money to suffer through dressage lessons. It does NOT have to be that way. ... 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